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Alumni and guests of the Virginia Students Civil Rights Committee talk about their efforts in Southside Virginia at a 50th anniversary reunion last weekend in Blackstone. Facing the camera, from left, David Nolan, Janet Dewart Bell, Bruce Smith and Scott Marshall.

Alumni and guests of the Virginia Students Civil Rights Committee talk about their efforts in Southside Virginia at a 50th anniversary reunion last weekend in Blackstone. Facing the camera, from left, David Nolan, Janet Dewart Bell, Bruce Smith and Scott Marshall.

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